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Midwife – Benghazi

Position Title: Midwife.

Position Reports to: Medical Doctor.

Field Site: Benghazi.

Date Needed: 01, January 2021

Essential Responsibilities:
The tasks include are not limited to:
Carry out clinical activities and patient care alongside and in collaboration with local personnel including:

• Examining and monitoring pregnant women during 5 days/week from 9:00 to 17:00.
  
• Assessing care requirements and writing care plans.
  
• Undertaking antenatal care.
  
• Carrying out screening tests.
  
• Taking patient samples, pulses, temperatures and blood pressures (gen vital signs).
  
• Caring for and assisting women in labour.
  
• Monitoring and administering medication, injections and intravenous infusions during labour as required.
  
• Monitoring the foetus during labour.
  
• Advising and supporting parents in the daily care of their newborn babies and providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners.
  
• Helping parents to cope with miscarriage, termination, stillbirth and neonatal death.
  
• Writing records.
  
• Providing technical support and oversight to mobile health team in patient care and service delivery.
  
• Referral of patients to and between hospitals/healthcare facilities.
  
• Collaborating with the team leader and medical coordinator in sending orders for periodic re-stocking.
  
• Work with M&E team to ensure accuracy and quality of data collected from all hospital/healthcare facilities on a monthly basis or as required.
  
• Conducting monthly data analysis and take action as appropriate in cooperation with the supervisor.
  
• Providing training to other healthcare (nurses) personnel for specific needs.
  
• Working as a member of the team, taking into consideration the non-medical problems encountered by the patients (i.e. feeding and psycho-social).
  
• Developing and foster a professional working relationship with community members and technical counterparts of healthcare facilities.
  
• Conducting home visits according to plans prepared by the medical team and approved by the supervisor.
  
• Follow up with target groups such as pregnant/lactating women, children less than 5 years old especially with regard to utilization and access to antenatal services and vaccination services and TBC patients.
  
• Conducting triage and initial patient assessment prior to referral to the medical doctor.
  
• Ensuring patient confidentiality.
  
• Providing weekly reports regarding beneficiaries visited.
  
• Performing regular health education sessions for beneficiaries.
  
• Submitting daily and weekly drug consumption report for the medical doctor of drug stock and expiry dates of drugs.
  
• Attending program meetings as scheduled.
  
• Actively participating in activity planning.
  
• Assisting other program staff whenever needed.
  
• Any other responsibility assigned by his/her supervisor.

Qualifications:

• Registered Midwife/nurse, with experience on the following departments: Midwife.
  
• At least 3 years’ clinical experience.
  
• Able to provide treatment and assistance to all individuals needing his/her care.
  
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
  
• Willing to work in resource limited settings, especially peripheral areas in Libya.
  
• Able to provide feedback/reports regarding work -related activities.
  
• Willing to do manual work when necessary.

Language Skills:
Able to speak in Arabic, English desirable.

Email your CV and Cover letter to libya-recruitment@internationalmedicalcorps.org indicating in the subject the position. Very Important, write the position title in the email subject before submitting.